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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
BY WALT WHITMAN
左邊押的很工整,右邊沒有很特別押韻

p.174
Where three roads meet : Oedipus的故事

        In Oedipus the King, Jocasta says that Laius was slain at a place where three roads meet. This crossroads is referred to a number of times during the play, and it symbolizes the crucial moment, long before the events of the play, when Oedipus began to fulfill the dreadful prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. A crossroads is a place where a choice has to be made, so crossroads usually symbolize moments where decisions will have important consequences but where different choices are still possible. In Oedipus the King, the crossroads is part of the distant past, dimly remembered, and Oedipus was not aware at the time that he was making a fateful decision. In this play, the crossroads symbolizes fate and the awesome power of prophecy rather than freedom and choice.

p.168
Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque of the Red Death (佛羅倫斯面具節)(plague)
由來是黑死病,因為像SARS大家都戴口罩,莎莎說去那邊不要亂帶東西回家

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p.1197
EMILY DICKINSON
I’m Nobody! Who are you?

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog – 
To tell one’s name – the livelong June – 
To an admiring Bog!

Odysseus
"I am Odysseus of Ithaca."
I like you, Greek,' he said. 'I'm going to do you a favor. What's your name?
'My name is Nobody,' I told him.

p.1207
I heard a Fly buzz (465)
Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – 
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air – 
Between the Heaves of Storm –

The Eyes around – had wrung them dry – 
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset – when the King
Be witnessed – in the Room – 

I willed my Keepsakes – Signed away
What portions of me be
Assignable – and then it was
There interposed a Fly – 

With Blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz – 
Between the light – and me – 
And then the Windows failed – and then
I could not see to see –

Job (約伯傳)
the most righteous person on earth
scapegoat(代罪羔羊): the chosen people 選民 or afterlife來世: trail試煉
因為Job太好了,所以選他來做試煉

Mark Twain 代表中下階層
Henry James 代表中上都會階級
徒弟: Edith Wharton 純真年代的作者